Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #71

The very best

About reality, trust, digital and analog stimuli. Very good. Recommend very highly the podcast with this one. Wish there was a transcript

About Collective Continuous Learning and Complete Day One Knowledge: present a revolutionary opportunity for businesses optimization.

About the dynamics and hidden patterns of culture. Often the most important things are invisible — we simply don’t have eyes to see. Feel the wind on your cheek and something undetectable to the human eye has been perceived. But what of the cultural…

About the next golden age as seen by Carlota Perez. A long-wave theory of technological and economic change suggests the financial malaise that began in 2007 may be about to end.

About how Amazon's margin could be attached by distributed systems like Filecoin.

About reality being ad-based

About taking back control of personal data from GAFA

About the ironies of doing meditation via your iPhone. In the category "how did we get here?". Funny and sad at the same time. If your phone makes you crazy, can you really fix that with meditation apps like Calm and Headspace?

About the moral responsibilities of corporations when governments fail.

It is enough to fill the entire Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City — twice.

two species of “portable self”

In order to stay competitive, companies need to evolve traditional business models

Data and Society

Although our exponential march into the world of tomorrow may be a death march for privacy, what we'll get in return will be much more valuable

About KYC based on Aadhaar. It was meant to be a one-stop solution to the identity conundrum of over a billion Indians. Aadhaar, the massive 12-digit biometric authentication platform, was expected to make the routine transactions, which citizens enter into with the government and private entities, more transparent. However, this unique identity number may only have rendered the system more opaque....

About Gene editing. I start putting this under "Data & Society", it feels like genes become editable like data.

August 31, 2017 (Chicago/Salt Lake City) — Today the Illinois Blockchain Initiative announced its partnership with self-sovereign identity solutions leader Evernym, leveraging distributed ledger…

Zeitgeist

THE powers of pardon bestowed on an American president—modelled on those enjoyed by English monarchs in centuries past—are so sweeping and awful that they impose their own discipline on chief executives, or so Alexander Hamilton predicted in Federalist 74.

To ignore the fact this is a manmade disaster ensures our greatest challenge goes unanswered and helps push the world towards catastrophe, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A long way from Houston, America and Britain are helping to cause the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, writes the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Innovation

IKEA Place incorporates augmented reality into the shopping experience

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

Why organisations change? One reason is increasing complexity (the C in the acronym VUCA). This infographic explains the impact of complexity on business.

While the e-commerce giant reported robust growth across its business segments, cloud computing was a particularly bright spot

8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles

Future of work

About humans becoming cogs in networks. Credit Suisse fund invests in work patterns company

Nilofer Merchant’s message is so critical now, calling us to identify what is good in ourselves and to connect with what is good in others so that, together, we

Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

What follows is a true story with a hook, and a checklist to accelerate your learning at the end. It’s easy to talk about “accelerated learning” but hard to implement it. This story and checklist…

Internet Culture

Monopoly platforms like Google and Facebook will take over the state – unless the state takes them over first, says the author and academic Nick Srnicek

Drones will be the most disruptive technology in human history, a US futurist says, predicting that by the year 2030, there will be 1 billion drones in the world doing things people cannot yet imagine.

FinTech

will bring the honeymoon to its inevitable end. The consolidation of resources (financial, talent, technology, and ideas) in the financial services industry will balance the market. It will also bring it to the original structure, where a very limited number of companies control the majority of the market.

Developers, businesses, and individuals increasingly are using initial coin offerings, also called ICOs or token sales, to raise capital. These activities may provide fair and lawful investment opportunities. However, new technologies and financial products, such as those associated with ICOs, can be used improperly to entice investors with the promise of high returns in a new investment space. The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to make investors aware of potential risks of participating in ICOs.

Swiss investors have teamed up to launch a crypto finance conference. The event is slated to take place right before the next World Economic Forum.

In Brief China's central bank has developed its own cryptocurrency, which is now...

Google quantum computing expert John Martinis addresses the realities and the hype surrounding quantum computing.

Ping Identity, the identity security company for over half of the Fortune 100, has been selected by Open Banking to provide the identity and access mana...

The team didn't consult a lawyer before its offering. ""We’re just a couple guys who are tech nerds in our basement," said the CEO.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Humans ask complicated questions and get annoyed quickly, says Oliver Bussmann. What does this mean for the future of the humble chatbot?

This article from Lets Talk Payments explains why it is important to understand that morality is key to understanding future with AI.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

We're on the verge of a shift in how smart home devices clamor for our attention. Get ready for Amazon Alexa-enabled push notifications.

For years we've been recorded in public on security cameras, police bodycams, livestreams, other people's social media posts, and on and on. But even if there's a camera in our face, there's always been a slight assurance that strangers wouldn't really be able to do anything that affects us with the footage. The time and...

Should artificial intelligence be regulated? This question was originally answered on Quora by Xavier Amatriain and Ben Y. Zhao.

Artificial intelligence has been a dream in technology ever since Alan Turing first wrote his seminal paper, ...

AI alarmism took on a geopolitical cast today as Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that whoever is first to build breakthrough artificial intellige

Art related

THE WORD MAGAZINE is Belgium’s leading English-speaking free media platform, documenting and championing the best in neighbourhood living, music and art. Published every two months, the magazine is distributed in over 500 distribution points across the country.

The Kenyan musician, producer and DJ doesn’t care what African music is ‘supposed’ to sound like.

LEGO has released a drone video showing its bjarke ingels-designed institution, which is set to open this autumn, from the air.

"Colour itself is a degree of darkness."

Other

We need both art and science in marketing — the “MadMen” and “MathMen.” I think the most compelling campaigns of the future will bring together the greatest

Perhaps since we started wearing clothing, it has been the primary way that people assert individual and tribal identity in public. From subculture uniforms to indigenous garments, what we wear is a…